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		<p class="purpose">For handling intermediate Inform code. This is version 1.</p>
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						<span class="chaptertitle">Manual</span></p>
					<p class="chapterpurpose">Documentation for the Inter format itself, as well as the inter tool which processes it.</p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="M-ui.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Using Inter</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Using Inter at the command line.</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="M-ti.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Textual Inter</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">A specification of the inter language, as written out in text file form.</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="M-dpiti.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Data Packages in Textual Inter</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">How static data, variables and constants are expressed in textual inter programs.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Code Packages in Textual Inter</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">How executable functions are expressed in textual inter programs.</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="M-ip.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Inform Primitives</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">The standard set of primitive invocations used within Inform.</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="M-ia.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Inform Annotations</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">The standard set of symbol annotations used within Inform.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Inform Organisation</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">The standard hierarchy of inter code generated by Inform.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Pipelines and Stages</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Sequences of named code-generation stages are called pipelines.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Reference Card</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">The current help information as it would be printed at the command line.</span></p>
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						<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 1: Outside of inform7</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Main</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">A command-line interface for Inter functions which are not part of the normal operation of the Inform compiler.</span></p>
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		<p class="purpose">This program also incorporates the following web(s) as module(s):</p>
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					<a href="../building-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">building</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">An intermediate layer for building code in Inter.</span></p>
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					<a href="../bytecode-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">bytecode</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Dealing with intermediate-level Inform as bytecode in memory.</span></p>
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					<a href="../final-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">final</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Final code generation from fully-processed Inter.</span></p>
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					<a href="../index-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">index</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Generating the index for an Inform project.</span></p>
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					<a href="../pipeline-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">pipeline</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">The code generation pipeline.</span></p>
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					<a href="../arch-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/arch</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Definitions of Inter and final VM architectures.</span></p>
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					<a href="../html-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/html</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Support for HTML problem, index and extension documentation pages.</span></p>
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					<a href="../words-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/words</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A library of code for reading natural language into a stream of words.</span></p>
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					<a href="../foundation/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">inweb/foundation</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A library of utility functions for command-line tools.</span></p>
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					<spon class="sectiontitle">inweb/literate</span>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A library of utility functions for literate programming.</span></p>
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